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No matter what happens, no matter what my last words may end up being, I want everyone to claim that they were: "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."
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Quote from: Art Vandelay on July 05, 2016, 06:27:37 pmHey, nukes are great. They're the reason WWII didn't have a proper sequel. Everyone keeps a few of those bad boys on hand, and suddenly no one wants to fight anything bigger than the odd very localised proxy war.Israel has gotten attacked numerous times despite having nukes. India got into several skirmishes with Pakistan, including one when both sides had nukes, Russia is pretty openly engaging in war against the Ukraine despite them having nukes for protection by proxy. The U.K. Had a war with Argentina as well. It seems pretty clear that nukes don't even totally prevent war between countries, and we would be better off sticking to methods that can't kill millions by accident.
Hey, nukes are great. They're the reason WWII didn't have a proper sequel. Everyone keeps a few of those bad boys on hand, and suddenly no one wants to fight anything bigger than the odd very localised proxy war.
Quote from: Svata on July 05, 2016, 07:47:10 pmYeah, nukes are absolutely unthreatening to your neighbors.I didn't say they weren't, I said they don't prevent conflict.
Yeah, nukes are absolutely unthreatening to your neighbors.
Quote from: I am lizard on July 05, 2016, 07:43:41 pmQuote from: Art Vandelay on July 05, 2016, 06:27:37 pmHey, nukes are great. They're the reason WWII didn't have a proper sequel. Everyone keeps a few of those bad boys on hand, and suddenly no one wants to fight anything bigger than the odd very localised proxy war.Israel has gotten attacked numerous times despite having nukes. India got into several skirmishes with Pakistan, including one when both sides had nukes, Russia is pretty openly engaging in war against the Ukraine despite them having nukes for protection by proxy. The U.K. Had a war with Argentina as well. It seems pretty clear that nukes don't even totally prevent war between countries, and we would be better off sticking to methods that can't kill millions by accident. Like I said, they don't stop smaller wars, especially when one side is both nukeless and outmatched. My point was they stop the big, global wars between superpowers. The kind we would've certainly had between the US and USSR shortly after WWII were it not for both sides sitting on a pile of nukes. Mutually assured destruction is the sole reason we had the Cold War instead of WWIII.